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...were the victims of undisguised public ostracism and discriminatory laws. Indeed, it was not until 1952 that legislation giving all Asian immigrants the right to citizenship was enacted. "Years ago," complains Virginia Kee, a high school teacher in New York's Chinatown, "they used to think you were Fu Manchu or Charlie Chan. ; Then they thought you must own a laundry or restaurant. Now they think all we know how to do is sit in front of a computer." Says Thomas Law, a student at Brooklyn Law School: "We're sick and tired of being seen as the exotic Orientals...
Several times during the past century China has absorbed outside influences only, in a convulsive fit, to spit them out again. In the mid-19th century, the fanatical Taiping rebels nearly overthrew the non-Chinese Manchu Dynasty with an eclectic ideology of primitive Communism and a wrathful Old Testament deity. In 1900, two years after the proclamation of Western-oriented reforms by the young Emperor Guang Xu, the Boxers, a peasant organization that aimed at ridding China of the presence and influence of Europeans, exploded in a burst of xenophobia, called for the ouster of all foreigners and fought...
Once upon a time, Howard Hughes set airspeed records and looked like Indiana Jones. Then came the long, slow tailspin into lunacy. By the time of his death in 1976, the image lodged in the public mind was of an aging billionaire with uncut hair and Fu Manchu fingernails hidden in a darkened Las Vegas hotel room. An unhealthy disregard for reality became synonymous with the recluse's name. A fake autobiography by Clifford Irving and the forged "Mormon" will that brought fame to Melvin Dummar only made matters worse. One could never be sure of anything written...
...Hall lowers his eyelids until he resembles Fu Manchu and says, "It's been a year of controversy, but no more or less than other years. I've had ups, downs, good years, bad ones. I've been constantly challenged, praised, abused, damned. Running the National Theater is a bit like being Nelson's Column out there with all those pigeons in Trafalgar Square. Personally, I can't tell you where I am. But I can tell you where the National is. It is extremely successful. Until I read John Goodwin's editing...
...Manchu Stew stand. This item was genuinely wretched--the recipe, as far as I could tell, was rice, soy sauce, grains of hamburger meat, and canned celery. A few blocks further downtown, a vendor was selling the same dish as a Wok-a-Doo Stew...